In the story of Santa Ana by Joan Didion she dicusses many things about the scary winds that people experience. The Santa Ana winds is something that make the people act out of character, nauseous, very nervous and even depressed. A wind that is so powerful, people understand how everything changes when its time for the Santa Ana winds to come. According to an Israeli physicist, “During the ten or twelve hours which precede them, the air carries an unusually high ratio of positive and negative ions” which mean that people are more angry and prone to irritation due to this high ratio. People acting out during the time of the wind, its almost like they are having a side effect to something. This could well be a government move and the people
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Also, the winds are indescribable, most days it would be scorching hot and out of blue it would honestly start to rain. Living in Southern California, you wouldn’t know how to dress, no matter if it was fall. During the Spring 2015, it was one of the hottest and driest seasons I’ve ever experienced. The whole Spring it was in the high 80’s with a sticky wind. In addition, Didion argue that, “The city burning is Los Angeles’s deepest image of itself: Nathanael West perceived that, in The Days of the Locust; and at the time of the 1965 Watts riots what struck the imagination of the most indelibly fires”(Didion …show more content…
The multiple events that haven’t came to an end, for example the police brutality, and how it’s cops killing African- American men and women for no reason at all. There indeed are fires going on also, in the South Central area are many people getting their lawns burned because of the racist tension that is going on right now. Los Angeles has been out of control, the point where in every state is in a march about the black lives that matter. The unpredictability of the people living here, the death rate is at it highest in about two or three years. Many people are losing their life over nothing and I feel that it is starting to get out of the public’s hand. Didion expresses that, “Los Angeles weather is the weather of catastrophe, of apocalypse, and, just as the reliably long and bitter winters of New England determine the way of life is lived there, so the violence and unpredictability of the Santa Ana affect the entire quality of life in Los Angeles, accentuate the impermanence, its unreliability”(page 47). Looking at the news, reading articles and watching internet videos about the reality of what Los Angeles is going through right now, you would honestly assume that we have now reached the end. More and more people are dying by the day, at least someone is killing someone in the Lords name in vain. Dealing with these
Also, the winds are indescribable, most days it would be scorching hot and out of blue it would honestly start to rain. Living in Southern California, you wouldn’t know how to dress, no matter if it was fall. During the Spring 2015, it was one of the hottest and driest seasons I’ve ever experienced. The whole Spring it was in the high 80’s with a sticky wind. In addition, Didion argue that, “The city burning is Los Angeles’s deepest image of itself: Nathanael West perceived that, in The Days of the Locust; and at the time of the 1965 Watts riots what struck the imagination of the most indelibly fires”(Didion …show more content…
The multiple events that haven’t came to an end, for example the police brutality, and how it’s cops killing African- American men and women for no reason at all. There indeed are fires going on also, in the South Central area are many people getting their lawns burned because of the racist tension that is going on right now. Los Angeles has been out of control, the point where in every state is in a march about the black lives that matter. The unpredictability of the people living here, the death rate is at it highest in about two or three years. Many people are losing their life over nothing and I feel that it is starting to get out of the public’s hand. Didion expresses that, “Los Angeles weather is the weather of catastrophe, of apocalypse, and, just as the reliably long and bitter winters of New England determine the way of life is lived there, so the violence and unpredictability of the Santa Ana affect the entire quality of life in Los Angeles, accentuate the impermanence, its unreliability”(page 47). Looking at the news, reading articles and watching internet videos about the reality of what Los Angeles is going through right now, you would honestly assume that we have now reached the end. More and more people are dying by the day, at least someone is killing someone in the Lords name in vain. Dealing with these